Sangita Myska, for your courage and compassion, I thank you,
Dog-whistled by client “journalists” in hock to money’s might, they cower
In ignorance and fear, the bigot spitting on what’s good and true.
I wept with you as valiantly you battled, speaking truth to power.
Not to your shame at all, Flyntland.
I had never heard of her until a youtube video caught my attention. To see someone in tears because of what is racial abuse is unpleasant.
The abiding problem is that it is often impossible to disentangle anti-Israel rhetoric from anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism.
Thanks for your likes and comments.
I don't always agree with everything Sangita says, but she and Marcus Rashford (who campaigns against homelesness and child hunger) were singled out on air by a woman caller, on the grounds of their percieved race / origins / colour.
To my shame I had to find out who Sangita Myska is - having done so I do so agree with the reason for your poem, no one should have to put up with such humiliation. Well done you for drawing our attention to it.
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Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
Fri 24th Mar 2023 07:54
I've just been looking back over some of my blogs, John M.
To what in my piece were you referring, when you commented about anti-semitism?